Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Jess sent me this link this morning that basically says that since 2008 Blizzard has been putting a secret watermark on all of our screenshots that includes our user IDs, the time the screenshot was captured and the IP address of the server we were on at the time.

We know how technologically inept I am, so this is beyond me, but it sounds crazy. Another link to a forum discussion around this.

Comments on both sites include obvious concerns around privacy and hacking.

Hmmmm. Any folks more technologically advanced than I (which would be um, all of you) have thoughts around this?

It's a hoax. You can generate similar patterns if you follow their procedure, but the patterns change depending on what your screen capture settings are. And if they're at highest quality, the patterns completely disappear. They're just an artifact of the compression algorithm, distorted all to hell by extreme photo enhancing.